Pirates continue voluntary workouts; NCAA approves summer access for July 6th…Fauci: “Football may not happen this year”…Ashbrook taps into its past to supplement football coaching staff …Vince McMahon Net Worth: WWE Chairman Is Worth $2 Billion…Hampton football coach Robert Prunty educates players about race instead of hiding them from it…NCAA inquiry into USF football focuses on Charlie Strong era…Temple’s Fran Dunphy says he was surprised but happy he was asked to be interim AD …North Carolina A&T names Will Jones men’s basketball coach …Wolfpack’s Bailey named Johnny Bench Award winner as college baseball’s top catcher…Duke’s Mayonnaise to sponsor Wake Forest-Notre Dame game, bowl in Charlotte…MLB owners and players are so busy yelling, they can’t hear their fans’ frustration…The Confederate Flag Didn’t Bother Bubba Wallace. Until It Did

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Pirates continue voluntary workouts; NCAA approves summer access for July 6th  WNCT 9

WITN 7

• Voluntary workouts continue for ECU football
• Fauci: “Football may not happen this year”

247 Sports

• ECU Football 2020 Player Expectations: DT Hozey Haji-Badri
• ECU Football 2020 Player Expectations: DE Elijah Robinson
• Where ECU’s decommitments from the last five years have ended up

Ashbrook taps into its past to supplement football coaching staff Gaston Gazette

Vince McMahon Net Worth: WWE Chairman Is Worth $2 Billion International Business Times

Around the American Athletic Conference

Tampa Bay Times

• NCAA inquiry into USF football focuses on Charlie Strong era
• USF senior KJ Sails shaping son to help ‘change the world’
• Marco Rubio introduces name, image and likeness bill bill to push NCAA changes
• Dr. Anthony Fauci says ‘football may not happen this year’ due to coronavirus

USF head coach Jeff Scott addresses future COVID-19 scenarios ABC Action News

College football coaches better adapt to empowered, outspoken players Orlando Sentinel

Temple’s Fran Dunphy says he was surprised but happy he was asked to be interim AD  Philadelphia Inquirer

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• Former LSU football commitment CamRon Jackson, 3-star RB JP Martin commit to Memphis
• Three-star LB Andrew Jones becomes highest-rated commitment in Memphis football’s 2021 class

TU athletes to start returning to campus next week Tulsa World

Despite ‘heartbreaking’ end to season shortened by coronavirus, Houston softball sets 2021 expectations high The Daily Cougar

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

North Carolina A&T names Will Jones men’s basketball coach USA Today

Wolfpack’s Bailey named Johnny Bench Award winner as college baseball’s top catcher Raleigh News and Observer

Charlotte’s college football bowl, kickoff games at Bank of America Stadium have a new name Charlotte Observer

Winston Salem Journal

• Duke’s Mayonnaise to sponsor Wake Forest-Notre Dame game, bowl in Charlotte
• Cuts like App State made can save athletics money but also take profit away from university
• It’s official: Will Jones is N.C. A&T Aggies’ men’s basketball coach
• N.C. A&T’s Sam Washington on the cancellation of the school’s homecoming and the return to campus for the Aggies
• Sam Whitt, civics-minded East Surry football player, appeals to North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper

Hampton football coach Robert Prunty educates players about race instead of hiding them from it Norfolk Virginian Pilot

Herd football has eight honored by Athlon Magazine Huntington Herald-Dispatch

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey takes stand against Mississippi’s state flag Tennessean

Associated Press

• Tennessee coach says RB Tim Jordan no longer with Vols
• Frost, Hoiberg donating some pay to Nebraska athletics
• Duke’s Mayonnaise new sponsor of Charlotte football games

How has USC women’s basketball worked out during a pandemic? ‘Think outside the box’  Columbia The State